My work hard drive crashed last week. Disk Doctors want $2,100 to recover the data. They said it's the firmware. Anyone know of a place that's a lot cheaper? Thanks
As long as the drive isn't physically damaged and still powers up you can download any number of data recovery softwares on the market. If the drive is damaged and won't boot up you aren't going to find quick recovery for much less then what you were quoted.
Ontrack This is the best software that can recover data....from what I heard. Here's a review on it: http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/about55515.html&sid=a7a2553f611c09a70ab0f46b6dbf7646
That's about right on the price, MM. If it's the circuit board, it's really easy to fix (just buy the same drive and replace with the same part), but the problem is that you need a super sterile and dust-free room because you are going to expose the platters (disks) when you do the hardware swap. I know you aren't asking for advice for the future, but a cheap way to ensure redundancy is to set up an ATA or S-ATA mirrored drive. That way if one drive fails, the other still has the data. You can find tons of info on this via Google. Good luck.
Well sometomes you can save the data very easly. Just make the hard drive a slave in a working machine. It should show up in windows as D drive so you can save the data I think another way is to use Knoppix to boot up from the cd drive. Then use a usb thumb drive to backup data.
yea, you can use many linux live cd's to boot up your crashed hard drive.... just do a google search for linux hard drive recovery
